Division commander is a very important position in a military unit. As the military commander of an army division, the division commander is responsible for directing the combat operations of a division and bears important responsibilities. However, with the completion of the Army's military reform, the Army has changed from the original "army-division-regiment-battalion" structure to the current "army-brigade-battalion." In other words, the army basically no longer has combat units at the division and regimental levels.
Then this also means that the former army division commander position needs to be changed. So, in this case, how are the duties of the division commander arranged?First of all, we need to understand that although the posts of division commanders and regiment commanders have been abolished, it does not mean that the rank of division and regiment has been abolished. As a matter of fact, there are still many division-level units and regiment-level units in other branches and departments of the armed forces. For example, the commander of a local army division is still at the rank of full division;The rank of the county armed forces minister is still at the regimental level.
In addition, although the division commanders were removed from their positions, they were still officers of the full division rank, and the rank of colonel was still the same. The improvement in the establishment of troops is to ensure that the army units are better adapted to modern warfare, and will not reduce the remuneration of the former division commanders and regiment commanders. On the contrary, the army will certainly actively guarantee the treatment and placement of the officers of these reorganized divisions and regiments.
Therefore, after the division is transformed into a brigade, the army often promotes those division commanders who are very good, have outstanding military talents, and are of the right age, so as to give full play to their military talents. This is also the first destination of division commanders after the military reform. For example, they can be transferred to a group army to serve as deputy army commander, chief of staff and other deputy army level positions, or they can be transferred to a deputy army level post under the theater and directly become a general.
Secondly, some division commanders may remain in the team and become brigade commanders of composite brigades. This is because after the division of the brigade, the various arms and various military departments under the jurisdiction of the composite brigade must have the leadership ability to serve the people. The division commanders have rich experience and ability in managing the army, and in addition, many of the troops under their jurisdiction are their own old subordinates, which is convenient for management and enables the troops to form combat effectiveness more quickly. Although he was reappointed as a brigade commander, he was not demoted, because these division commanders were still cadres at the division level, and they were front-line military commanders, and they could easily be promoted to the deputy army rank and become generals in the future.
The last kind of job arrangement for these division commanders is to be transferred to other division-level units and retain the treatment of the division-level personnel. After the division was transformed into a brigade, the brigade level was only at the deputy division level, and the posts at the deputy army level in the group army and the theater also had a strict establishment. For example, division commanders may be transferred to group armies to serve as deputy chiefs of staff of corps, heads of second-level organs in theaters, and so on, and some may even be transferred to commanders of military divisions.